Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8451, Jacob Eyler, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Eyler, Jacob
S. 8451
CONTENTS
carded

371
Pennsylvania Jacob Eyler
of Cumberland in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Wills — of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Morgan in the Penn a militia line, for the term of 7 months, from December 1776 to — 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 23. 33 100 — Dollars per annum month, to commence on the 4 day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of August 1832 — and del d to Maj J. H. Hooker U. S. A. Present.
Arrears to 4th of March 1832 $ 23. 33 1 / 3 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Sep. . 11 66 2 / 3
$35.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
7 June 1832
Rec: Book D. Vol: 6. fol: 54

11 mos service
$23:33 per ann.
Penn. Roll
ad. June 1832
Major J. H. Hook Present
Dep. Aug. 24 1832.

State of Pennsylvania Cumberland County Set.
We George Duffield a Clergyman residing in the Borough of Carlisle and Jacob Hencel residing in the same place, County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Eyler who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration; that we believe him to be eighty five years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and Subscribed the 15 th day of August A.D. 1832 in open Court before John Harper Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County Penn a .
Geo Duffield Jacob Hencel
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answers to which are embodied in the declaration of the aforesaid Jacob Eyler, that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that George Duffield who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman Resident in the Borough of Carlisle and that Jacob Hencel who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit - the 15 th August 1832.
John Reed. Pres t Judge Wm Lewis Justices
State of Pennsylvania Cumberland County Set.
John Harper, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Cumberland do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Eyler for a Pension.
Witness my Hand and the Seal of the said Court at Carlisle the fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
John Harper Clerk of the Ct. of C. Pleas of Cumberland County Penn a .

the Reinforcements arrived, and then we returned to Philadelphia. I never received more than a verbal discharge from the Officers, and about four weeks after our Return we were ordered to muster, and were drawn up in a circle, when a letter from his Excellency General Washington was read thanking us for our Service rendered the Country.
Some time in the month of March or April 1780 I do not recollect which; I was ordered out in the Eighth class of City Militia commanded by Captain Conrad Rusk when I was again called on duty in and near the City of Philadelphia Guarding Prisoners and deserters and near the expiration of said term I was attacked with a Violent Fever, of which I was confined between Seven and Eight weeks under the Care of Doctor Atkinson Physician of the Regiment — By reason of my removal from the City in the year 1784 to said Borough of Carlisle, (where I have resided ever since) as also from the best information from time to time received on enquiry, I firmly believe that none of my Officers or Companions in arms are now living, that at the time I was out in Service the first and second tour of Duty and confined by Sickness while in Service as aforesaid amounted in the whole to upward of Seven months —
I have no Documentary Evidence to prove my different terms of Service, nor do I know of any person living who can testify to them.
The Certificate hereto annexed contains the names of Persons to whom I am known and who testify to my character and to the credit my statements deserve.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and accept that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State whatever —
Sworn to and Subscribed the Fifteenth day of August A.D. 1832 u. aforesaid Before J. HARPEN Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster Penn s
Jacob Fritter

State of Pennsylvania Cumberland County, Is
On this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable John Reed Esq. President and his Associates, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, at a court now holding in the Borough of Carlisle in and for the County of Cumberland aforesaid. Jacob Eyster , a Resident of the said Borough of Carlisle, in the County and State aforesaid aged eighty five years, on the twenty fifth day of July last past, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7 th Day of June A D 1832, viz - I was born on the 25 th July A D 1747 in the town of Sovernheim, in the Palatinate (now Kingdom of Bavaria) in Germany from whence I emigrated to North America, and arrived in the City of Philadelphia in the Month of September 1774 and resided there till some time in the beginning of the Month of December 1776 - when I volunteered as a Private, under a Captain Wills, in the first Battalion called the City Militia, Commanded by Col. Morgan (previous to this no Militia Law was passed nor at this time) the Subal- tern Officers of our Company were Lieutenant Rees and Ensign Heil, on our arrival near Trenton we remained in the Shadylups for several Hours, waiting for orders when we landed on the Pennsylvania side, and encamped in the woods opposite Trenton, without tents (nor had we any during the whole Campaign) where we remained for some time, then marched back to Bristol, where we remained until the 25 th day of December 1776, on which day we attempted to cross the River Delaware, but were prevented by the Ice, until the following day when we crossed some short distance above Bristol and then marched to Burlington where we were attached to Genl. Cadwallader's Brigade, and next day marched to Bordentown, from thence to Crosswicks, where our Company lodged in a Quaker Meeting house. Here we remained until in the night of the 2 nd January 1777 when we marched to Trenton. Some short time after our arrival the Enemy appeared - We were drawn up in order of Battle, when the Cannonading commenced and lasted until Evening. we then removed some short distance into a piece of woods, where we encamped and lighted our fires, About Midnight we silently withdrew and marched to Princeton where we arrived some few hours after sun up - here we met some of the British, and had a considerable engagement in which we captured about three Hundred Prisoners, from the Battle Ground we marched through several towns and places (the names of which I cannot now remember) and in two days after arrived in Morristown where we remained until the expiration of the term of our Service some time in February, when at the special request of General Washington was remained in Service upwards of three weeks longer than our full time and until the

the Reinforcements arrived, and then we returned to Philadelphia. I never received more than a verbal discharge from the Officers, and about four weeks after our Return we were ordered to muster, and were drawn up in a circle, when a letter from his Excellency General Washington was read thanking us for our Service rendered the Country.
Some time in the month of March or April 1780 I do not recollect which; I was ordered out in the Eighth class of City Militia Commanded by Captain Conrad Rusk when I was again called on duty in and near the City of Philadelphia Guarding Prisoners and deserters and near the expiration of said term I was attacked with a Violent Fever, of which I was confined between Seven and Eight weeks under the Care of Doctor Atkinson Physician of the Regiment — By reason of my removal from the City in the year 1784 to said Borough of Carlisle, (where I have resided ever since,) as also from the best information from time to time received on enquiry, I firmly believe that none of my Officers or Companions in Arms are now living, that at the time I was out in Service the first and second tour of Duty and confined by Sickness, while in Service as aforesaid amounted in the whole to upward of Seven months —
I have no Documentary Evidence to prove my different terms of Service nor do I know of any person living who can testify to them.
The Certificate here annexed containing the names of Persons to whom I am known and who testify to my character and to the credit my statements deserve.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and accept that my name is not in the Pension Roll of the agency of any State whatever —
Sworn to and Subscribed the Jacob Fritter Fifteenth day of August A.D. 1832 as aforesaid
Before J. H. HARPER Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland Penn a

Rev War
8451 INVALID.
File No. 8451
Joseph Eyles First Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 100 , Page 118
[Arrangement of 1870.]